Anemia Paperback with Online Resource

Edward J. Benz, Jr is President and CEO at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Director and Principal Investigator, Harvard Cancer Center, Boston. Nancy Berliner is Chief of the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Fred J. Schiffman, Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence.

Part I. The Normal Human Red Blood Cell: 1. Anemias, red cells, and the essential elements of red cell homeostasis Edward J. Benz, Jr; 2. Red cell production Benjamin L. Ebert and Anupama Narla; 3. Red cell lifespan, senescence and destruction Richard Kaufman; Part II. The Patient with Anemia: 4. The clinical approach to the patient with anemia Matt Quesenberry, Alina Huang and Fred J. Schiffman; 5. Anemias of childhood Bertil Glader and Wendy Wong; Part III. Specific Forms of Anemia; Section 1. Microcytic Anemias: 6. Iron deficiency Paula Fraenkel; 7. Sideroblastic anemias Nathan T. Connell and Edward J. Benz, Jr; 8. The thalassemia syndromes David Chui and Madeleine M. Verhovsek; Section 2. Macrocytic Anemias: 9. Megaloblastic and non-megaloblastic anemias Peter W. Marks; Section 3. Hemoglobinopathies: 10. Sickle cell syndromes Maureen Okam; 11. Structural Hemoglobinopathies Edward J. Benz, Jr; Section 4. Hemolytic Anemias: 12. Autoimmune hemolytic anemias Mark A. Murakami, Edward J. Benz, Jr and Nancy Berliner; 13. Drug-induced hemolytic anemias Oreofe O. Odejide; 14. Red cell membrane defects Patrick Gallagher; 15. Malaria Michael A. McDevitt and Richard Bucala; 16. Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia Elaine M. Majerus and J. Evan Sadler; 17. Extrinsic non-immune hemolytic anemias Pavan K. Bendapudi and Ronald P. McCaffrey; Section 5. Hypoplastic Anemias: 18. Acquired aplastic anemia and pure red cell aphasia Daria Babushok and Monica Bessler; 19. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria Robert A. Brodsky; 20. Congenital marrow failure syndromes Anupama Narla and Benjamin L. Ebert; 21. Anemia of chronic inflammation Satish P. Shanbhag and Cindy N. Roy; 22. Myelodysplasia Rafael Bejar and Ida Wong; Part IV. Secondary Anemias: 23. HIV and anaemia Owen Seddon, Andrew Freedman and David T. Scadden; 24. Anemia in the patient with cancer Murat Arcasoy; 25. Secondary anemias associated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Joseph H. Antin; 26. The anemia of aging Amanda J. Redig and Nancy Berliner; 27. Anemia in pregnancy Ariela Marshall and Jean M. Connors; 28. Anemias due to systemic diseases Ronald P. McCaffrey and Giada Bianchi; 29. Transfusion therapy for anemia Joe Sweeney; 30. Transfusion reactions Alex Ryder, Edward Snyder and David Unold; Part V. Management of Anemia: 31. Pharmacologic therapy of anemia Nicholas Short and Elisabeth Battinelli; 32. Splenectomy: indications and consequences Sophia Fircanis, Andrew Brunner and Fred J. Schiffman; Part VI. Summary: 33. Anemias: summary, conclusions, and future prospects Edward J. Benz Jr; Index.